Technical Description

Mandriva has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in GNU Tar. This flaw could be exploited by malicious people to conduct directory traversal attacks. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4717

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2006.0
Mandriva Linux 2007.0
Mandriva Corporate 3.0
Mandriva Corporate 4.0
Mandriva Multi Network Firewall 2.0

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
162f61a8fd27d2056e0412ca2db835ec 2006.0/i586/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mdk.i586.rpm
ff8a8b9a0438f72f01fc81ee7d36f303 2006.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
811ff45e7001afef069d024c496eaaf4 2006.0/x86_64/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
ff8a8b9a0438f72f01fc81ee7d36f303 2006.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
2f2b45550cb57234a437143e78a92ce1 2007.0/i586/tar-1.15.91-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
7adbb2a696af7e9fbc87702c21555c9e 2007.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.91-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
ad0aa3bb29ff3cad8842dc0b72054761 2007.0/x86_64/tar-1.15.91-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
7adbb2a696af7e9fbc87702c21555c9e 2007.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.91-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0:
4f64d5d13fc887e2698b59f908d144fd corporate/3.0/i586/tar-1.13.25-11.1.C30mdk.i586.rpm
6f470c1fd005021c072627f4ed720f0b corporate/3.0/SRPMS/tar-1.13.25-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
e7ddc900476c0c202abdcedd28cc7893 corporate/3.0/x86_64/tar-1.13.25-11.1.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
6f470c1fd005021c072627f4ed720f0b corporate/3.0/SRPMS/tar-1.13.25-11.1.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0:
23aaf07731b8a40a67fbd1a0d1f282ad corporate/4.0/i586/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
feab531719ee55b58cdb14183d84cfc6 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
633ca84b42d52bce291a58c348b1a823 corporate/4.0/x86_64/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
feab531719ee55b58cdb14183d84cfc6 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/tar-1.15.1-5.2.20060mlcs4.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0:
3f07efd5980e45ce55f05364f0e1f4bd mnf/2.0/i586/tar-1.13.25-11.1.M20mdk.i586.rpm
0b6cd4ea429d91884e9c2fffbd8d0dbc mnf/2.0/SRPMS/tar-1.13.25-11.1.M20mdk.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4755
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2006-11/msg00035.php

ChangeLog

2006-11-29 : Initial release

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